Back to school and lots of others!!!!!

Ah... Back to school i thought i would be so excited that they were going back since they were making me absolutely crazy last week with torchering each other but alas, i'm at home crying missing them!!! Some times i wonder if there is something wrong with me!!! I'm sure they are doing fine and having a good time so i will try to chill out and play with the kids i have at home still. This year Creedance got Mrs. Stanger as a first grade teacher! We hear she is awesome and Tyler knew her when he was younger, so her year should be great! Doesn't she look so cute in her new outfit! Topher is in Mrs. Andrus' class this year! We hear she is kind of strict but that she really pushes the kids and Topher really needs to be pushed so that school isn't so boring. So hopefully he does well in her class. It was raining this morning pretty good so we started are pic's inside!But the rain stopped just enough to get some pictures outside! Then they threw on their jacktets, and they are still young enough that they let me walk them over to the school and get them into the gym to find there teachers! First day of school must always be crazy!!!Ok, on to a different topic than school so that i will think about something else! Topher is in scouting!!!!! He doesn't turn 8 until November but the scout leader invited him to start coming this summer! He loves it, and has already earned a bunch of the awards or whatever you would call them!! He has a great leader and i'm sure he is learning alot! He thinks that now that he is a scout he should get a pocket knife for his birthday!One of Pearson's new hang out spots is in the dryer! He thinks it is soooo cool and and a great place to hang out. He loves to climb in and out and in and out. And i am left trying to get the dry clothes out inbetween and then have to fight for it to get the wet clothes in and be able to close the door!! It is sure a good thing he is sooooo cute!!!Now on to Pearson's Birthday! Yes i found the pictures and am actually getting around to blogging about it. Although it will now be hidden under the back to school name, i'm just excited that i am getting it done. The day of Pearson's birthday he was quite happy and fun. We put him down for a nap though right before his party and he woke up quite the bear. He kept crying and pulling at his ear and did not want me to put him down at all. The presents seemed cool but i was not allowed to go very far and he would growl at the other kids if they got to close!!! He loved all his gifts!! Thanks everyone!This year i did a monkey theme for him!!! The cake turned out pretty good, if i do say so myself. Pearson thought it was good to! I had to keep putting more and more on his plate or he would scream if there was not a piece there that he could grab!!!This was probably his favorite part of the whole night!!! He loves baths!!! And the new bath toys just made it that much better!!!!The next day I was able to get a picture of him in his monkey birthday hat!(this was after taking him to the doctor where we found out he did not have an ear infection)The kids thought the monkey hats were the greatest and i had a bunch of monkey clowns running around for the next couple of days.

T.j. doesn't start preschool until the middle of next week so i'm sure i'll post about that and creedance's dance stuff as soon as i get some more pictures.

Bad Mom!!!!

So to start out with i have to tell you about a conversation that i overheard with some kids T.j. was playing with today!
So t.j. was walking up the stairs at dance tech and i was at the top! this is what i heard.
Little Boy 1: "So what is wrong with your foot?"
Little Boy 2: " Well his dad was kind of mad and he cut it off like this" Said while acting if sawing off T.j.'s foot!
I laughed so hard! Most people would think that is horrible but i loved the smile on T.j.'s face as the other kid just stared amazed! I hope T.j. set him straight but i'm not sure he did. Hope the kid doesn't have nightmares! Hopefully he is just really good for his dad from now on!!

So the plan was to post the rest about Pearsons Birthday and other fun things that we have been up to but Pearson won't stop screaming and i can't get the pictures to load onto the computer so alas as a bad mom would do would be to keep postponing and hope to post the pictures of his birthday before he turns two!!! I'm off to put kids to bed!!

Redfish

I was so excited to be going on vacation this year!!! Tyler has been soooo busy that we haven't done a whole lot of camping this year! I forced him to leave a day early for redfish! He did work in the morning but was home around noon and we finished loading the bus! I can't believe how much we fit in there! It was way weighted down.The kids are all ready to go.Our first stop was the seventeen mile cave. There wasn't very much light down there but the kids thought it was pretty awesome to go into a cave anyway. They were already for a break by then because of the road construction out that way. We stopped that night just after sun valley the bus decided it was tired and didnt want to work.No worries though because it made it to the top of galena with no problems the next day. Tyler was really sad that someone had stolen the summit sign though because he wanted people to see that his bus had made it that high!!

The rest of that day was filled with putting up camp, playing at the beach and making sure all the grandkids made their first trip to the "lodge" to buy treats with the money some earned from grandma Waddoups! My dad can hardly believe the rate at which the grandkids could earn money he decided to make his own work chart and tried to make $5 for taking a nap! I'm pretty sure that he didn't get the money in the end!

One of the craziest things about the beach is the amount of ash that has gotten into a select part of the sand. My kids were basically black all week. Pearson i wasn't sure if he actually had legs under all the ash! Everyone thought it was rather funny and i hated trying to put sunscreen on them when i wasn't even sure if it was getting to their skin?

The kids loved the beach though they played there whenever they weren't on their bikes or at the lodge(which happened daily if not more than once a day!!!!) Some where brave enough to be buried! but watch out for sand in your face because Pearson was always near by. The kids did great at going behind the boat tooo! Topher and Cree both tried skiing! Cree actually did it for awhile but then let go of the rope! Cree kneeboarded with her cousin and T.j. started kneeboarding but didn't want to go out very deep so he just let go of the rope!!! Alll three kids also road in the tubes. Another fun adventure of redfish is going to the fish hatchery!! Some would perfer not to go but the kids love it! Grandpa always brings enough quarters to make sure the kids get to feed the fish and they just love it!!!!The aftenoon hike is always fun to grandpa drives us to the other end of the lake in the boat we hike up to the lily ponds and the waterfalls come back down and jump off the cliff!!!! I stayed back at camp this year with Pearson and T.j. so they could take a nap but the others had a great time! Sadly i can't access the pictures of the cliff jumping but it did happen!!!We sat around the fire alot!! It was always cold in the morning and evening but plenty warm during the day!!!!!! Oh the hot pots are always so much fun the water is warm and we have to soak!!! I did not get to participate because my awesome baby camper lost it there!!! He loved campiing and playing in the lake but when we got near that warm water he cried and screamed and i finally took him back up to the car while the others enjoyed!!!

Crazy Summer!!!

So far this summer things have been a little busy!!! The kids all played baseball which they loved but just added up to a lot of games!

Creedance has done one dance camp and has another one coming up in august and is also taking ballet. Here she is with a friend from dance camp getting ready to perform!!!!

Christopher loves friends and is doing work to earn his new bike! He is mostly weeding the garden for this but it is alot of work to keep up with our garden! He is also buliding this really cool car from his Kinex toys. All of the kids got a new tent that they can't wait to use but we haven't had time to go camping yet! Don't worry we are making tyler take off all next week to go camping!!!!!! He also started going to scouts today!! He doesn't turn 8 until november but the person over his age group said that he could start coming a little early and of course he was way to excited to say no!!!T.J. just loved T-ball but he loves swimming lessons even more! Yes now all the kids are signed up for swimming lessons(well not Pearson). And we go everyday for two weeks for an half an hour! He loves riding his bike and terrorizing me and Tyler!! He is figuring out how to bend the rules and making sure he does it well!! We can never find remotes he keeps cutting things up like the pack'n'play and he climbs in the front seat of my van and manages to destroy things that i didn't even know could be destroyed!!Tyler and the kids have been working alot on the bus! O.k. tyler works and the kids play either way it takes up a lot of time!!! I think they all enjoy it though since they do it quite frequently and the only complaining to be heard would be from ME!!!!!

Oh and i guess we have been camping once this summer!! We went up to Downeta Hot Springs with my parents for my dad's family reunion. We got to stay in a Tepee which the kids thought was sooooo awesome! Me and tyler had a good time to since most of the kids slept in grandma and granpa's tepee! OH and we love swimming in warm water and the kids loved the slides. Here is Cree and T.j. in grandma's tepee. We have been doing alot of eating and playing with friends to!!! Tyler has made new game for us to play were you throw the golfballs which are attached to rope and if the land on one of the three poles you get so many points. Anyway it is way fun to play! We also have got to play in a friends bounce house, and then they let the kids play on their climbing wall! Pearson is doing really well!! He loves to sing and make noises he thinks it is soooo great! I'm not sure if his hearing was really well before the tubes but he can definately hear us now and he loves to be sang too! We are having problems with milk and him. He throws up whole mik, and 2% seemed to be working but alas there was more throw up, i thought lets make this easy and decided to see how he did with T.j.'s rice milk, thought it wa going to work and then major diahrea!! Don't think i want to do that so we are going to stick with Formula for awhile longer since he can have the Enfamil brand with out any problems(Similac makes him throw up big time:( can't figure out the difference though)! I'm sure he is going to be walking in no time but for now he crawls like a wild man and he is loving it!!!!

so life stays extremely busy! We have cousins from out of town here and are headed to redfish next week! So i keep plugging along and trying to enjoy as much as i can!!!

Pearson has teeth!!!

It has taken awhile but it is true!!! Pearson finally has teeth. They started to push up and make him cranky right after we finished getting tubes. They both came all the way out about a week ago they were only two days apart. He does not like to show them off though so i am having a hard time trying to get a pic but as soon as i do i will add it!

The NEW Do's

So i decided last night it was time to cut the boys hair again! So as often as i can remember growing up dad liked to give my brothers their summer hair cuts! He would just plain buzz off all of their hair. Both Topher and Tyler did this last summer! (Though Tyler went a little more extreme and was actually shaving his head!!!!) But i couldn't stand to cut off all of T.J.'s hair and every time i give him a hair cut he brings up how mean i am that i wouldn't buzz his hair all off too!!! Well this summer both Toph and T.j. now officially have buzz's!!! Couldn't Tyler into cuttting his all off again, though. Anyway here are some before, after and even some inbetween pics!!!

T.J. and T-ball

T.J.'s first T-ball game was today!! I forgot to take the camera with me to the game although i was planning on it life always gets crazy on me! We were lucky we had his mitt and bat! I put them in the car yesterday so we would have them and he took them back out when i wasn't looking so we had to hurry back home to get them good thing i asked him where they were before we were to far away from the house! He loves playing and even though he wasn't sure what was going on some of the time he stayed happy and willing to do whatever his coaches asked of him! We are having a hard time figuring out which way he is going to play right or left handed he can bat both ways but it is really hard to put the mitt we bought him on his right hand so he can throw left so i'm trying to convince him only to throw with his right hand and to keep the mitt on his left has. This is the reaction i normally get!T.j. going what do you mean it isn't suppose to go on this hand!!!